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swollen

adjective as in enlarged

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The gap between bodily experience and how to capture it on the page results in writing swollen with desire — and its rare fulfillment.

Out in the benign but swollen landscape, so placid now but so full of potential unrest, unspeakable things have happened.

Symptoms, such as swollen lips and throat and difficulty breathing, can happen very quickly.

From BBC

More than 80% of plague cases in the U.S. have been in the bubonic form, from which patients will develop swollen, painful lymph nodes called buboes, according to the CDC.

Then the creek, swollen after a series of big storms in the 1980s, flooded the lower plain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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